Walking The Lonely Path

How does a lapse of faith occur?  Very simply: one begins to live like everybody else.
—  Leo Tolstoy
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On This Day In:
2018	The Ultimate Trial
2017	Vain Expectations
2016	Or Of One Thought
2015	What’s In Your Future?
2014	Light In Darkness
2013	How ‘Bout Just Obeying The Law?
2012	Or Maybe Not
2011	My Interval Is Too Short!

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From My Sullied Prison

To keep ourselves totally apart so as not to become sullied is the most sullied thing of all.
—  Leo Tolstoy
The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness.
—  Erich Fromm
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On This Day In:
2018	In My Room (2)
2017	Pretending
2016	And Songs Too…
2015	On The Road To Failure
2014	Each Moment
2013	Conversation
2012	4 Down, 11 Done (At Last)
	I’m Not Afraid
2011	Who’s Risk Is It, Anyway?

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Why America Stinks More Than It Did 50 Years Ago

Wealth should be like manure in the field.  When it is in a big pile it makes a bad smell.  But when it is distributed everywhere across the field, it makes the soil fertile.
—  Leo Tolstoy
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On This Day In:
2017	No Universal Thinking
2016	Supervise The Results
2015	Just Magic!
2014	It Lies Ahead…
2013	At Least One Difference
2012	Are We, Are We?
	On Not Playing The Game
	Scale
2011	Nutcracker And Nooks
	Seeing Differences

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Up For Progress

The only person who doesn’t fall is the one who doesn’t strive toward anything.  Fall a thousand times and get up a thousand times and if you don’t despair, you will make progress.
—  Leo Tolstoy
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On This Day In:
2017	And Second By Second
2016	Bakeries And Coffee Shops
2015	Spirit Not Form
2014	Sometimes Even Kneeling Seems Insufficient
2013	Hobgoblins
2012	Got Sleep?
2011	Not Another Barren Corner

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Necessary Company

Nothing is so necessary for a man as the company of intelligent women.
—  Leo Tolstoy
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On This Day In:
2015	Reality Vs Imagination
2014	Penalty Period
2013	Theft
2012	Cranky Old Man
2011	A Man’s Got To Know His Limitations

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